Miss Willie
With a Foreword by Wade Hall Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is part of Giles's Piney Ridge Trilogy. It tells the story of an earnest teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. Zealously, she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people, but to no avail. They listen to her ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude. But in the end they quietly go about their accustomed ways. Ultimately Miss Willie realizes that the hill customs have a beauty and dignity of their own and that some of her efforts to reform them were ill-conceived. Her warmth, gen…
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Weitere Autoren: Hall, Wade (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8131-0831-5
- EAN: 9780813108315
- Produktnummer: 9343684
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 380 g
- Gewicht: 380
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